How do you take off a pickup cover??

Submitted by guitarguy on Wed, 05/18/2005 - 04:18.

does anyone know how to take the pickup cover off a humbucker? like the chrome covers that come on most humbuckers like on les paul standards? anyone know how to take those off?
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Posted by lee_UK on Wed, 05/18/2005 - 17:26.

take the humbuckers out, turn them upside down, you should have 2-4 screws (small crossheads) on the underside, unscrew these, then you should have a blob of solder holding the cover on, desolder this 'blob' and bobs your uncle, job done..

Posted by guitarguy on Wed, 05/18/2005 - 18:09.

are you about the screws? because i have seen humbuckers upside down without a cover and they still had those screws

Posted by lee_UK on Fri, 05/20/2005 - 13:53.

i have seen this on projectguitar.com, may be of interest.
http://www.projectguitar.com/tut/barmagswap.htm
discribes how to remove the cover from a seymour duncan, i would think it is very similar to your pup.
good luck.

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